Syllabus academic year 2007/2008
ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGEVTVA10

Higher education credits: 4. Grading scale: UG. Level: G1 (First level). Language of instruction: The course might be given in English. Compulsory for: V1. Course coordinator: Ebrahim Parhamifar, Ebrahim.Parhamifar@tft.lth.se, Vägbyggnad. Assessment: Oral and written accounts of the exercises.

Aim
The course provides knowledge and tools for the calculation and presentation of results that can be used to render teaching/learning more effective in other courses and facilitate practice as an engineer.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

Identify and interpret different parts of the drawings normally used in construction and infrastructure projects.

Understand the building up of library databases and carry out effective information-seeking.

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

Use the Office packet to create templates for simple reports, calculations and presentations.

Put forward a plan for a technical report and the objectives of its parts (background, aim, method, results, analyses, conclusions and discussion).

Carry out an oral presentation with technical aids.

Make simple drawings using CAD.

Contents
1) Computer use

Office-packet

Information seeking

2) Communication and presentation technique

Written presentation

Oral presentation

3) Information and drawing technique

Interpretation of drawing

Drawing technique - CAD Geographic Information System - GIS

Literature
Strömquist, S. Skrivboken. Gleerups 2000. ISBN 91-40-63411-6
Svenska Språknämnden, Svenska skrivregler. Liber 2000. ISBN 47-04974-X